Our 50 Favorite Web Development Resources from 2012 Let’s keep it simple: last year, we did a roundup of 50 of the most useful web development resources. Today, we bring to you the 2012 edition, but only better. And what can you expect to find in this years roundup? Pretty much everything a developer could ever need: CSS frameworks & tools, HTML5 resources, JavaScript frameworks & tools, web editors, mock-up tools, application frameworks, responsive layout tools and resources… and on and on. This post does not include any jQuery resources as we published its own round-up last week, you can check it out here Top 50 Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011. CSS Frameworks Base Framework Base is a 12 column 960px grid (max) responsive CSS framework that contains everything you need to get up and running quickly. Bourbon Neat Neat is a simple grid framework built on top of Sass and Bourbon using em units and golden ratios. Kube CSS Framework The Kube Framework is certainly not an overblown responsive CSS framework with multiple layouts and styles. RWD Grid
Garage Door Style Menu Originally published on July 21, 2008 as only a jQuery technique. Now updated to include CSS3 and a combo technique which is mo' betta. A garage door style menu is where an image (the "door") slides up to reveal something behind it. We'll do this in two ways, with CSS3, and with jQuery. Then we'll combine them into a progressive enhancement way to handle it. The jQuery Method Right out of the box, jQuery provides the animate function, which allows us to morph some CSS attributes over time. Thankfully, there is a plugin to help with this, the Background-Position Animation Plugin by Alexander Farkas. View Demo Download Files 1. We are going to need three different types of images here. Notice my guides. Second, we'll need to create the garage doors which we will call the "shutters". Lastly, we need a window which will act as the garage frame. 2. Here is the menu markup: The ID on the menu will give us all the specificity we need. 3. The menu background is applied to the UL itself. 4. if (!
jsAnim - Free JavaScript Animation Library Animated Content Menu with jQuery Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The menu items will be animated and when clicked, a content area with more information will appear. Also, he background image is going to change according to which menu item was clicked. The main idea is to […] View demoDownload source Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The main idea is to have a restaurant menu with the different menu categories displayed. So, let’s get started. The Markup The HTML structure is going to contain some elements for the background image, the grid overlay, the loading icon and the main menu. As a default background image when the page loads, we will have the image Default.jpg. The menu content will be wrapped by a div with the class “ac_content”. For each menu item, we will have a div “ac_subitem” which will contain the submenu content box. Let’s take a look at the style. The CSS @import url('reset.css'); The JavaScript
Raphaël—JavaScript Library How To Create a Cool Animated Menu with jQuery In this tutorial we’ll be building a cool navigation list complete with a sliding hover effect. Learn how to build the concept in Photoshop, lay out the basic HTML elements, style everything up in CSS then tie it all together with a few lines of jQuery to create a semantic, accessible and degradable menu design. The design we’ll be building features a cool label image that slides into place under each navigation item on hover. We’ll build the design to work without jQuery first of all to ensure it’s widely accessible to users without Javascript enabled, then enhance the effect with jQuery for the majority of users. View the animated menu demo Create a new document and fill the background with a light beige. Use a subtle grunge Photoshop brush to add a little extra texture to the top centre of the canvas. Draw and fill a rectangle to create the base of the label graphic. Use the Polygonal Lasso tool to draw a small triangle. All the menu needs now is a series of text links. <! jQuery
10 Super JavaScript Animation Frameworks JavaScript allows you to do a wide range of animations and effects that would otherwise be very hard to achieve with minimal overheads. Below is a list of JavaScript animation frameworks that will allow you to rapidly develop animations with ease. Have fun! Related Posts: 1. Raphaël Is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. Source + Demo 2. Is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Source + Demo 3. script.aculo.us Provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly. SourceDemo 4. Is an experimental library which allows you to perform a variety of operations on images using just a bit of JavaScript. SourceDemo 5. moo.fx Is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework. Source + Demo 8. 10.
jQuery Plugin: Sliding picture menu | iSenne.com Basic HTML code The menu requires some specific HTML code in order to work correctly. First you need a container where you want to put the menu. After that it’s just a matter of putting some menu items in the container. Add a sub menu To add a sub menu, just put an unordered list in the div with the class “submenu”. <div class="MainMenu"><div><img src="img/menu-1.png" /><img src="img/text-1.png" /><ul class="submenu light"><li><a href="#">Submenu 1.1</a></li><li><a href="#">Submenu 1.2</a></li></ul></div><div><img src="img/menu-2.png" /><img src="img/text-2.png" /></div></div> Add a link If you don’t want to use a sub menu, but just 1 link, just put an <a href=”#”> in your menu item! jQuery code And that’s it for the markup. <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $(".MainMenu").pictureMenu(); }); </script> The options! Here is a list of options with the default value. animateTime: 350The time in miliseconds it takes to complete the sliding animation! New feature:
Polymaps Online JavaScript beautifier Photobox - CSS3 image gallery modal viewer A lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses only CSS3 for silky-smooth animations and transitions, utilizes GPU rending, which can be completely controlled and themed directly from the CSS. Lightweight! jquery.photobox.js is only 5kb (gziped & minified) Hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations Mobile friendly Support videos via iframe embedding Stunning UI and user-friendly UX Images & videos can be zoomed using mousewheel Thumbnails can be zoomed using mousewheel Keyboard & mouse navigation. Even using mousewheel left/right ;-) Exposed UX control up to 99%. No need to mess with the source code Observes DOM changes (if images were added/removed) Event-delegation on all thumbnails events (obviously...) HTML5 History support: update location with the currently viewed image No images at all! Supports: Firefox, Chrome and IE8+ (This plugin has nothing to do with Flickr) Github project page
jQuery Easing Plugin Description A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options. Please note, the easing function names changed in version 1.2. Please also note, you shouldn't really be hotlinking the script from this site, if you're after a CDN version you could do worse than try cdnjs.com Download Download the following: Example Click on any of the yellow headers to see the default easing method in action (I've set as easeOutBounce for the demo, just because it's obviously different). Select easing types for the demo first one for down, second one for up. The Clicker Updates 12/11/07 1.3 jQuery easing now supports a default easing mode. 04/10/07 1.2 Updated to include all methods from Robert Penners easing equations. 28/06/07 1.1.1 Updated the method to not overwrite the newly renamed 'swing', or the new 'linear' style coming in 1.1.3. 22/06/07 Rewritten the above to include callback syntax, nothing else has changed. Advertisements Need reliable hosting for your blog? Credits Donate Usage Default Custom
Tutorials Advanced Uploading Techniques — Part Two Continuing from our last tutorial, we discuss how to automatically pause and resume your uploads using the online and offline events. Advanced Uploading Techniques — Part One Uploading large files or over slow connections makes your uploads vulnerable. Web Audio API — Part Two Continuing from our previous tutorial, we now introduce the concepts of position, convolution and impulse responses. Web Audio API – Part One The Web Audio API is one of two new audio APIs designed to make creating, processing and controlling audio within web applications much simpler. requestAnimationFrame Learn the secret to silky-smooth JavaScript animation! Create an iPad optimised game HTML5 canvas is of course brilliant. Three.js part 1 – make a star-field Remember FastKat? Make an explosive firework display Creating fireworks using the HTML 5 canvas: both awesome and fun to do. Box2D JavaScript tutorials by Seth Ladd 31 days of canvas tutorials by Keith Peters
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